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Re: svn prop* syntax weirdness

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_lyra.org>
Date: 2002-11-07 22:36:10 CET

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:43:52AM +0100, Branko Cibej wrote:
> Greg Stein wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:44:22PM +0200, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
> >>Karl Fogel wrote:
> >>
> >>>Should we put the current 'propfoo -r' functionality under
> >>>'revpropfoo' or `rpropfoo' instead?
> >
> >What about 'svn propfoo --revision-prop -r NNN' ?
>
> Yes, but why the additional -r? the revision number can be a parameter
> of ther --revision-prop option, can't it?

Hmm. Possible, yes. But read this line:

$ svn propget --revision-prop 34 foo file.c

I don't want revision property "34". I want property "foo". The name of the
switch isn't conducive to putting the revision number right after it.

A better name for the switch could fix this...

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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